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The Pac-12 is arguably the best conference in college football in 2023. The Pac-12 has another top-15 matchup on Saturday night as the No. 5 Washington Huskies (10-0) play the No. 11 Oregon State Beavers (8-2). The opening kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT on November 18. ESPN’s lead commentary team of Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, and Holly Rowe will call the game on ABC from Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Oregon. The Huskies are the only undefeated Pac-12 team remaining. If Washington wins on Saturday night, they clinch a spot in the Pac-12 Championship in Las Vegas.…

Four domestic worker recruitment agencies in the UAE have been sealed shut, and their owners fined Dh50,000 for operating without a licence. The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) has referred the four Al Ain-based agencies to the public prosecution. The Department of Economic Development has placed ‘closure’ signs on their doors. “A temporary accommodation has been provided for the domestic workers at the violating establishments,” the ministry said. The workers have agreed to be transferred to MoHRE-approved domestic worker recruitment establishments. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. The agencies were caught…

A Swiss-led team has driven electric vans across Europe and the Arabian Peninsula to Qatar to showcase zero-emission battery powered vehicles, organisers said Sunday. The five-strong Swiss and German team set out from Geneva on August 28 in two electric Volkswagen vans on a 6,500 kilometre (4,000 mile) journey that ended in Doha on Saturday. “The motivation was really to do something unusual,” the group’s leader Frank Rinderknecht told AFP. “Certainly we did have the risk of not arriving — technical issues, health issues or an accident.” The journey aimed to raise awareness about the environmental benefits of electric vehicles,…

The European Central Bank moved closer to creating a “digital euro” on Wednesday by greenlighting the next stage in the project, even as questions persist about the potential benefits and risks. The ECB’s governing council has agreed to launch a two-year “preparation phase” from November, the bank said in a statement. The final decision on launching a virtual currency had not yet been made, it stressed. “We need to prepare our currency for the future,” said ECB president Christine Lagarde. A digital euro, she said, “would coexist alongside physical cash, which will always be available, leaving no one behind”. From…

Franz Kafka never realized how close he came to kickstarting a superhero franchise. Ever since Gregor Samsa awoke in his bed to find himself transformed into a monstrous dung beetle in The Metamorphosis, we’ve had spider-men, wasps, ant-men, crime-fighting ticks and mighty mantises — such a super swarm of insectoids that you might be tempted to reach for a fly swatter. We’re now back to the beetle with the new DC Comics film Blue Beetle, which opens in UAE theatres on August 24. But what distinguishes Blue Beetle isn’t its place in the bug brigade but the person doing the…

Marc Bohan, a fashion visionary and the longest-serving designer at Dior, has died at 97, the French luxury fashion house said. “Dior is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Marc Bohan, an immense and influential visionary who was Creative Director of our House for nearly three decades,” Dior said in a late Friday statement on social network X. “His originality and modernity have never ceased to inspire. Our thoughts are with his family and friends,” Bohan, who died on September 6, began working for Christian Dior in 1957, creating collections in London. He became the house’s third artistic…

Team Australia always find ways to reach ICC ODI finals and sadly Team South Africa can’t decode how to reach the finals of an ICC World Cup. Right from 1992 where they were robbed of a semifinal due to rain, the heart break against Australia in the 1999 semifinal in England where the match ended in a tie, the 2007 drubbing at the hands of Australia in West Indies, the 2015 last-ball defeat to hosts Kiwis and once again today the loss to Australia in yet another loss to Australia. Before Thursday’s semifinal, South Africa had won every bilateral series…

Total prize value exceeding Dhs1.9mln “W Capital “to hold a new draw for Dhs100.000 next January. Draws increase the company’s competitiveness within the Dubai market, Walid Al -Zarooni Dubai- United Arab Emirates  Saturday, November 18th, 2023 W Capital, a Dubai-based real estate brokerage, announced a new draw for the year 2024, starting from next January 20th,for Dhs100.000, as part of their strategy to stimulate real estate sales. The company organized 3 draws in the first half of 2023, with a value of Dhs100.000 each. “We are starting again to offer raffles to boost sales, especially with the continued real estate…

Fans of Amazon’s Alexa should take advantage of the discounts that are available in this year’s Black Friday deals for Amazon Echo and Amazon Echo Show devices. Feel free to check out our guide on which Amazon Echo should you buy to read about the different models that are available — there are a lot in Amazon Black Friday deals — before you start browsing the offers that we’ve rounded up below. Also consider Nest Black Friday deals if you have other Google smart home devices. Whether you’re going for an Amazon Echo or an Amazon Echo Show, you’re going…

The Sharjah Police’s anti-drug forces have thwarted an international criminal gang comprising 32 Asian and Arab nationals in an operation dubbed ‘Unveiling the Curtain’. The gang attempted to smuggle a substantial quantity of narcotics and over a million psychotropic substances into the country. The estimated market value of the contraband was a staggering Dh14 million. This operation was conducted in collaboration with the security services of neighbouring countries. Colonel Majid Al Assam, the Director of the Anti-Narcotics Department at Sharjah Police, disclosed that the Department received information from a source who alerted them to an international criminal network aiming to…